RE: [Evolution] Ximian Connector?

[Stephen Witkop <switk yahoo com>]

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 22:08, Nat Friedman wrote:
> On Tue, 2001-12-04 at 19:09, Stephen Witkop wrote:
> > The only problem that I have with this is the timing. Ximian Connector
> > has obviously been planned for some time, so why wasn't it laid out
> > along with all the other plans for evolution. It just makes it seem as
> > though Ximian was afraid they would lose support among developers and
> > users so they didn't announce anything until they had what they wanted.
> > I'm not saying that's what they were actually doing but that's certainly
> > the way it seems.
>
> I can see how it might seem that way.  A big component of the timing was
> not wanting to announce it before we could start demoing it and giving
> out evaluation copies to potential customers.  We weren't trying to
> trick anyone, but we didn't want to announce it and then ask people who
> wanted to buy it to wait 6 months before they could see a demo :-).

Thanks for the explanation Nat, being open and not taking comments like
mine as flames goes a long ways since they were only made out of concern
for Ximian's long term success.

Stephen